<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p><a href="http://www.tuaw.com/">http://www.tuaw.com/</a></p><p>Many Mac pros are unnaturally fond of <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; ">SuperDuper!</a>, the accurately-named backup utility from <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; ">Shirt Pocket Software</a>. The application is inexpensive (free, actually, if you don't want advanced features -- the best US$27.95 you've ever spent, otherwise), powerful, and easily makes fully-bootable backups of your Mac.</p>The latest version of SuperDuper! has just been released. Version 2.6.2 is now available and has a ton of new features and fixes. Here's the scoop from the revision history:<br><ul><li>Significant copy speed improvements (up to 2 times faster!)</li><li>Preserves compression when copying</li><li>Fixed extra copying under Snow Leopard</li><li>Scheduled copies in old format are now disabled and we prompt the user to recreate</li><li>Scheduled copies work on Japanese systems and with more Unicode/composed character drive names</li><li>Backup-on-mount should work on 10.4.11</li><li>Adjusted SDUtil path to improve robustness when application is moved (now symlinked/refreshed)</li><li>Minor copy tweaks</li><li>Reworked SL status to use 1000B = 1MB, 1024B = MiB for Leopard and earlier.</li><li>Fixed crontab escaping if user has tcsh as their default shell</li><li>Fixed issues with explicit Spotlight disable/enable under 10.5+</li></ul>If you currently have SuperDuper!, you'll be notified of the update the next time you fire it up. If you don't have it, get it.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>